All Inclusive, produced by It's Alive Films and directed by Teemu Nikki, has been selected to compete for the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.

The Festival de Cannes is one of the oldest and most revered film festivals in the world. In 2018, over 3,900 short films were submitted to the festival in the hopes of winning the Palme d'Or. All Inclusive is the seventh Finnish short film selected to the Cannes Court Métrage competion.

"Cannes is the cherry on the cake of It's Alive's festival history. We have been dreaming about this," director Teemu Nikki smiles.

All Inclusive is the 15th short film directed by Nikki for It's Alive. Nikki (b. 1975) got a running start to his professional career in the international festival circuit, when the now a cult favourite A Mate (2007) was selected for both the International Competition of the biggest short film festival in the world, Clermont-Ferrand, and the official programme of the Sundance Film Festival.

In addition to The Mate, one ofthe internationally most successful comedic shorts from It's Alive, founded by Nikki and producer-writer Jani Pösö, was Fantasy (2016), screened at nearly 80 film festivals. The most recently released short film by the prolific Nikki, Cleaning Woman (2018), was also seen in the International Competition of the Clermont-Ferrand Festival in the winter of 2019.

"I hope we get to return to Cannes next year with our next feature," producer Jani Pösö muses hopefully. This summer, It's Alive Films will shoot its fourth feature film, NIMBY. The company's earlier features, all directed by Teemu Nikki, are Euthanizer (2017), Lovemilla (2015) and Simo Times Three (2012).

All Inclusive

For all his life, Kalervo has been bad at standing up for himself, until Annukka — a woman who loves him — gives Kalervo a gift that changes everything. As many of Nikki's previous works, All Inclusive may be interpreted in many ways, but ultimately it is about power, love and change. If you could change the little grievances of your life, how far would you be willing to go?